Imagining transatlantic slavery
By: edited by Cora Kaplan and John Oldfield
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780230578203
Description: "This exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuring contributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on the long history of representations of transatlantic slaves and slavery, encompassing a broad chronological range, from the eighteenth century to the present day"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Papers originally presented at a conference.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Cultures of abolition. Inventing a culture of anti-slavery: Pennsylvanian Quakers and the Germantown Protest of 1688 / Brycchan Carey; title: (Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: the case of Benjamin Flower and the Cambridge Intelligencer / John Oldfield; title: 'Another Ida May': photography and the American abolition campaign / Jessie Morgan-Owens; title: Exchanging fugitive identity: William and Ellen Craft's transatlantic reinvention (1850-69) / HollyGale Millette; title: pt. 2. Imaging transatlantic slavery. Equiano's paradise lost: the limits of allusion in chapter five of The Interesting Narrative / Vincent Carretta; title: Phillis Wheatley's abolitionist text: the 1834 edition / Eileen Razzari Elrod; title: Women and abolitionism: Hannah More's and Ann Yearsley's poetry and freedom / Lilla Maria Crisafulli; title: pt. 3. Remembering and forgetting. Representing slavery in British museums: The challenges of 2007 / Douglas Hamilton; title: Coram boy: slavery, theatricality and sentimentality on the British stage / Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace; title: Significant silence: where was slave agency in the popular imagery of 2007? / Marcus Wood; title: Afterword: Britain 2007, problematising histories / Catherine Hall.